The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-20
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Negro Living Near Dawson with
Toes Like the Claws Of a Craw Fish
Sam Jones Prevents a Panic at Rome
"A Young Man Drowned in a Mill
Pond in N ;rion County.
GEORGIA.
There has been w. c. I. .. organized
at Jesup.
Jesup viii have two brick houses in the
near future.
A farmer near AcwoIth has Jersey hog
weighing 500 pounds.
Some of Clay county's melon growers re-
port young melons by the hundreds.
Appling Superior Court is in session this
week with Judge Atkinson presiding.
The stands of cotton of the early plant
ing in Talbot county could not be improved
on.
Crops in Ebert county are reported to be
III good condition generally with good stands
of corn and cotton.
What little fruit that was left on the trees
in Ebert county is now falling of. The
crop will be almost a total failure.
Tuesdays noon train for Eufaula ran into
flock of goats and killed three of them,
near the Southwestern depot in Americas.
They were the property of DR.. r, G. Black
Mr.. Davis, carpenter of Athens, had a
birth and death in his family Tuesday.
The babe was born about 9 o'clock, and at
IL o'clock his little girl, about 6 or years
old was corpse.
Tuesday morning about 10 o'clock Mrs
W. j. Stewart, living about six miles from
Americas, was stricken with paralysis, and
was reported in a dying condition at 3
o'clock in the afternoon.
The Atlanta Cotton Compress and Ware
houSeing Company has been allowed to in
creas its capital stock to $500, 600, and given
the privilege to construct and operate COM
presses at any point in Georgia.
Advices from Rome state that Principal
Keeper of the Penitentiary Towers is slowly
recovering from his severe illness, but it will
be some time before he is sufficiently recov-
cred to attend to the duties of his Office.
The district meeting of the Macon district,
will be held at the Methodist Episcopal
church in Hawkinsville, commencing on
Tuesday, May "a. The Introductory SER
mon will be preached by Rev. J. Domingos,
of Perry.
The Atlanta Construction Company has
been awarded the contract for the construc-
ton of the new bank building of the First
National Bank, of Sheffield, Ala. The build
ing will be very handsome one and will
cost about 200.
An adjourned term of Sumter Superior
Court will be held next week, commencing
on Monday next, to close the unfinished
business. The grand jurors will be ON hand,
also the petit jury, for the last week of the
regular April term.
Arthur Simmons, the live farmer of Lee
county, has about $50 acres of cotton that
viii make a man happy to look at. It is
about Knee high, clean and nice, and will
make Col Primus Jones hump himself for
the, FIRST bale this year.
The Griffin cotton mills have to work to
their utmost capacity to supply the demand
4 for their goods. A large firm in ST. Louis
\ photographed for fifty bales of goods Tues
day, fearing to trust the order by mail lest
they be too late to get them.
George ii. McRee, an honorable citizen OF
Oconee county, was returning from Athens
Saturday evening in a two-horse wagon
when the mules took fright. ran away
threw him from the wagon and broke hi
left leg just above the ankle The bon,
protruded through the flesh, making very
bad wound.
j. D. Peacock, of Hawkinsville, is tn,
proud owner of q Counterpart which wa
woven in 1872 1t is a present from Mr.
Peacocks father, who bought it at a sail
in Virginia many years ago. The figures
1912 were woven into the cloth. The OLE
relic is in remarkable state of preserva
ton, is snow white and still in use.
A gentleman in Athens Tuesday received
by express from Tennessee two thorough
bred Llewelyn settlers. They cost S25
apiece and are the finest bred dogs in tn
State. Gladstone, the sire of one of tn
dogs, is the best bird dog in the world. HI
was sold for 5000. Roderigo is the sire 0
the other, and is also a fine bred dog.
The harvest season is now at hand il
Sumter county, and many of the farmer
are cutting oats. Many of the crops are la
mentable failures, while some of them viii
xrfaid oh O11a-h o1f Onn xx,b
expected 700 or 1000 bushels, will no
get $50. This viii necessitate draw
on the Western markets after awhile.
George Lamar (colored) who was sen
fenced to the penitentiary, for stabbing Lii
Bivins. for five years, returned to America
last Sunday. On account of good behavio
his sentence was committed three or fou
months, and he is now at home once more
and will not be so apt to carve his fellow
man with his "little knifen in the future
There are quite a number of applicants 70
the place of librarian at the University, a
Athens, position made vacant by the deaf
of Rev. John Calvin johnson, and only pay
$3.50 year. Among the number are Messrs
I,ampkin Stone Scudder and Miss Frierso
G. E. Heard, Emory F. Anderson an
others. The trustees are being besieged fo
their votes.
At Waycross Policeman Watson has sue
ceeded in arresting Bill Wisberry, a motor
Gus negro. He is wanted for two offenses
one is for trying to kill his wife with an az
and the other for HOUSEKEEPING in Way
cross. Watson also captured Harris MOI
wood (colored) for obtaining ride on til
Savannah, Florida and Western under falls
pretenses. Both men are behind the bars
1t now comes to light that w. R. Powell
who went from Covington to Birmingham
Ala, several months ago, is not getting ric
very fast in the Magic City-in fact, jus
manages to make a hving-he is now lool
ing around for some other place to emigrat
to. He says that every trade and profe
sion is overcrowded, and that the sanitar
condition of the city is too awful to conten
plate.
Messrs Powell and Davenport one yea
raised on their Greene county plantation
variety of cotton with staple so long that
could not be worked by the machinery
the factories around Athens, and had TO
sent to Europe, where it brought an II
creased price. r. K. Reaves says that tn
Hirloing or any grade Of improved cotto
planted on the Oconee river bottoms wi
produce long staple.
Last week negro woman, firing of th
society of her liege lord, ran away from tn
upper part of Clay county with a younge
and handomer man The irate husband 10